Tuesday 23 October 2018

Tomb

Poul Anderson, The Stars Are Also Fire, 40.

Luna is independent. Lars Rydberg, Dagny Beynac's oldest son, is nearly a hundred. The hardware and supposedly blanked software of download Dagny will lie in the same massive tomb on the Moon as the ashes of the original Dagny. The site might become a halidom like Thermopylae or Bodhgaya. In fact, it will become a place where download Dagny can speak once more.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Dagny Beynac's tomb on Luna reminded me of how Chapter 1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY stated that the light waves from distant stars carrying the pledges of men celebrating the birthday of Emperor Georgios would lap on his tomb. Which in turn made me wonder what the tomb of the Founder of the Empire, Manuel Argos, was like. Were all the Emperors from Manuel I down to at least Josip all entombed in the same mausoleum? Or did some have individual tombs?

A bit morbid, I admit!

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
The main tomb in the Technic History is that of St Kossara on Dennitza.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I should have mentioned St. Kossara's tomb, I agree!

Sean